Question:
I was just rereading the first Fantastic Four Masterworks (covering #1-10),
and noticed that the Marvel Universe actually have Marvel comics.
For instance, Reed uses pictures from "Strange Tales" and "Journey Into
Mystery" to convince the Srulls not attack the Earth in #2. Johnny is
reading the Hulk in #4,and Reed is visiting the bullpen in #10.
So, which comics would the Marvel Universe have? I'm guessing people like
the Avengers probably have a comic magazine, but Spider-Man and the X-Men
probably wouldn't.
Answer:
-I'm sure there's an actual comic that explains this. I have something that
mentions a Thunderbolts comic is made in the fictional MU (did it get
derailed in #76 too?) but I can't remember what it is exactly.
-They actually published a bunch of one-shots back in 2000 under the
"Marvels Comics" banner, which were done under the affectation that
these were the actual comics from the Marvel U. The best one was
Marvels Comics: Fantastic Four, which was a sort of "offical fan mag"
for the FF (the idea that the FF approve of a comic of their
adventures has been mentioned several times in the history of the
book, going back to the Kirby/Lee days). Apparently for at least a
while Rick Jones wrote the Captain America comic, and Stever Rogers
has drawn it. The other books, including Spider-Man, Daredevil and
X-Men, were unoffical books which just took off on other directions
based on the names (there was a Thor one, but I didn't pick it up so
don't recall if it was an official Thor comic or not).
